Here is an album we have made for you. This is a record of loss, and also of growing up – which is almost the same thing. As the record plays from outside-in, the rings of trees are growing from inside-out. Time is spiralling and we skip rope across it. Welcome to this living room. Here, memories dismantle, marred by glitches; violence and intimacies yield to each other with tenderness. Pull, push, pull. In the emergent speculative realities, we navigate dissociation and change. This is the place where we created ourselves. Come on in. All is as constructed as it is real.
Bio Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue
Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue are a collection of limbs and hearts. They create transmedial performative encounters, playing across dance, poetry, music, and scenographic experiments. They believe in performance as a social practice - a political, intimate process of transforming and being transformed. More than a consistent focus on specific thematics, their works propose a way being with the world, that confronts harshness through vulnerability and playfulness. The collaboration between Ashley and Domenik has been nurtured by friendship, as well as support from institutions such as Dansateliers, workspacebrussels, Over het IJ, De Nieuwe Oost, CAMPO, and Dance Nucleus. Their work has been presented in festivals such as Moving Futures, FAT Leiden, Dansand, Offspring (SPRING Utrecht), and con·tact Contemporary Dance Festival. They graduated from the Dancer/Maker Bachelor’s programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts in 2022, and are currently working between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Singapore.
Credits
Concept, choreography, scenography, text, sound, performance: Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue
Costume: Nina Perino
Opening dramaturgical guidance: Merel Heering
Closing dramaturgical guidance: Ingrid Berger Myhre
Lighting and technical support: Edwin van Steenbergen, Quintus Visser
Special thanks to: Jill Kupers, Jaz Chen Jiaxin, Kristin de Groot
Production: Dansateliers
photo @ Brandon Gravenberch
